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SPECIFICATION forming part oi' Letters Patent No, 381,103, dated Apri117,1888.

A `Application filed October 3, ll. Serial No.251,292. No model.) Y

Be it known that I, ACHILL BIPPART, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cuff and Collar Buttons; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clean'and exact'description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had tothe accompanying drawin'gs, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification. 1

VThe object of this invention is to simplify ythe construction and to reduce the cost" of manufacturing buttons for cuffs and collars and the like, to secure/alsmoother movement of the shoe on the shank, and `to enable the shoe to be held in place more perfectly when in its raised position, or when brought to a po-` Fig. 3 is a detail plan of the back plate ofthe adapted to be inserted within the shoe of the button andholding the cross-head ofthe shank;

Y and Fig. 6 is an elevation of the shank in detail. Y

In said drawings, a indicates the front, plate or ornamental plate of the button, b the shank thereof, and c the shoe, which is adapted to turn on saidshank so as to lie parallel there- Between thek said plates d and e are vinner e plates, g and g', 'which are of thin sheet metal, having the quality of springs, one ofsaid plates,

Figs. 4. andv 5 are link-shaped ,platesy lstruction shown I am enabled to securjea plain g, being provided with recesses Informed inl the face thereof, and being adapted. to receiveV and holdin place the crossihead b of theshank.

`The said cross-head rispreferably larger'or thicker at the center, as atb?, and the recess.

`is correspondingly enlarged, sothat when the form the pressure isjmore evenly divided, and

there are also avoidedthe square corners and edges generally inuse on Shanks and posts andl .A .y

the wear andindentations made by them. j The'recess h is angularewhen looked at in cross-section, asshown in Fig. 2, and is adapted 'to hold the shank both in position,parallel I.

with the head and in position also atright ani gles thereto. This construction and arrangei' ment, in connection with thc'slaut at the botc tom of` the post, not "only allows-the back to take a perpendicular position, but the slot in the spring allowsthe end of thepost to go throughV to the bottom plate anda longer slant Ycanloe given to the post, and thus, utilizingy all the spacein the foot, allowsa shorterpost when the foot is closed than has been "heretofore used.V c 'i The end plate or back plate of the plates g g is slotted, as at z', to allow for the' passage of the shank. The saidv shank is bent, as at b3,

allel with the shank as possible. By the oo nto allow the shoe to bebrought as nearly par!`l or uncorrugated back plate, e, and atthe same time toavoid' the use of smallndependent springs, which are liable to become displaced.

frhepiates g ggwhich hoidtheshank imposi-l A V J90y lthe desired result, and inasmuch as thestrain tion,V provide sufficient spring action to secure caused in turning the shoe is divid'edvb'etween the two plates VI am enabled to vget a smoother y motion, and at the same time the liabilit'y to 9S' n In a shoe for a cuE-button, the combinationl invention,.what

of front and back-plates, d e, slotted springn plates g g', with a recess, h, to hold the shank have hereunto set my hand this 27th day of or post in position, and all held in position in September, 1887. regard to each other by turning the edge of the front plate over upon the edge of the back AGHILL BIPPART' 5 plate,y all the above parts constructed and com- W'itnesses: A

bined substantially as set forth. CHARLES H. PELL, In testimony that I claim the foregoing l OSCAR A. MICHEL. 

